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(Some Guy)   Beef wholesalers hope, now that Japan accepts American beef again, that the price of tongue will skyrocket again. In related news, PETA members strip naked somewhere   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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jonbond
2006-07-09 2:55:29 PM  
All I read in that headline was "tongue" and "strip naked".
 
loraksus
2006-07-09 2:57:32 PM  
Can we hose them down?

/perky nipples are great!
 
thenateman
2006-07-09 2:57:45 PM  
Maybe lingua tacos will go up in price, they're normally the cheapest thing on the menu. It's still not my bag.
 
lomans
2006-07-09 3:01:38 PM  
I'd be willing to export my tounge to some hot japanese women.

/obvious
 
CheezeAnvil
2006-07-09 3:02:01 PM  
If I could get an Asian to accept my beef with tongue, I'd skyrocket.

Wait, what were we talking about?
 
BXRWXR
2006-07-09 3:04:02 PM  
Never eat anything that something else used to process food with is my general rule of thumb.
 
DeadintheShadows
2006-07-09 3:07:51 PM  
Rule of thumb, they should call it the rule of wrist.
 
Goodfella
2006-07-09 3:08:42 PM  
The FDA, who's supposed to protect Americans from tainted and bad food no longer cares if we eat Mad Cow beef, so why should they care if the Japanese eat it?

It's really too bad that the very federal regulatory agencies that were created to protect us from corporations dumping bad food on the American public are now owned and run by these very corporations. It's like letting the foxes guard the hen house. Talk about a conflict of interests. Geez.

Also, it's been found that many people that have been diagnosed with altheimers disease are actually suffering from the effects of Mad Cow disease. This is another one of those dirty little secrets that the FDA and the beef industry doesnt like to talk about much, sort of like the military's treatment of the whole depleted uranium (DU)/Gulf War Syndrome issue. If you know someone suffering from altheimers, you should probably have them go get a second opinion.

But no, lets go on trusting our corporate masters to look out for our best interests. They've always been so trustworthy in the past. I sure would have no problem with feeding my kids and my family Mad Cow disease beef.
 
Christian Bale
2006-07-09 3:10:32 PM  
...now that Tokyo has agreed to buy U.S. beef again...

While some of the mad cow bans have been lifted, others remain, like Japan's and South Korea's. It is hoped those two markets will open soon.
 
BizarreRecords
2006-07-09 3:10:57 PM  
Also, it's been found that many people that have been diagnosed with altheimers disease are actually suffering from the effects of Mad Cow disease.

Huh. Maybe you should write up a scientific paper about that or something since no one else seems to be aware of that.
 
exvaxman
2006-07-09 3:13:05 PM  
I love to make smoked tounge - with Horseradish sauce it is fantastic! Serious story - always had to pay a lot for tounge until I had to live in exile from intelligence in South Carolina - was able to get it just for taking it away from the butcher's. Now living in a place where we have a decent school system, I find it tough to find under $3/LB.
I'm sure there is no relationship.....

And for those objecting - at the time where I lived was ranked the second best HS system in the state in SC. The second in charge of the district lived behind me and he had not graduated HS himself. Lots more stories but it would start another flame war. First words from my wife when our first was born was "can we leave this damn state now?".
 
Curious [OhFark]
2006-07-09 3:16:00 PM  
i can't find tongue in any of the stores around here. maybe because the Japanese have been getting it. we used to have it regularly when i was growing up. BTW if it's cooked in a pressure cooker it will taste mostly of whatever you seasoned it with. and it's somewhat firmer than lunch meat.
 
waxon_waxoff
2006-07-09 3:20:23 PM  
When you eat tongue, how do you know when you're done?


/i'd eat it.
 
BizarreRecords
2006-07-09 3:27:09 PM  
i can't find tongue in any of the stores around here

Check the mexican groceries. They have tongue along with every other body part.
 
Christian Bale
2006-07-09 3:32:35 PM  
Mad Cow - CJD - Alzheimer's


Actually the studies showed that Alzheimer's was being diagnosed when in reality the people had CJD. This is significant since CJD is only supposed to affect 1 in a million people naturally (250 cases a year in U.S.).

The much higher rate suggested by the studies in turn suggests that CJD is being artificially caused by something else, perhaps Mad Cow (which usually shows up as vCJD, but we might not know what it always looks like, it might look just like CJD at times)

Evidence indicates that CJD may often be misdiagnosed, and thus go unreported. A 1989 study at the University of Pittsburgh autopsied the brains of 54 patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and discovered that three of the patients (5.5 percent of the sample) actually had CJD. A 1989 study at Yale University reported similar findings.

"Postmortem examination of 46 patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's revealed that six (13 percent of the sample) actually had CJD. The New York-based Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, argued in a paper presented to the USDA, 'Since there are over 4 million cases of Alzheimer's disease currently in the United States, if even a small percentage of them turned out to be CJD, there could be a hidden CJD epidemic.'
 
Dead on the River [OhFark]
2006-07-09 3:35:42 PM  
Just what young Japanese girls need: a hot American beef injection..
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-07-09 3:46:42 PM  
Goodfella: The FDA, who's supposed to protect Americans from tainted and bad food no longer cares if we eat Mad Cow beef, so why should they care if the Japanese eat it?

Number of Mad Cow disease cases caused by beef from cows with the disease: 0

Number of cases that prove it's possible for a human to contract Mad Cow disease in the first place by eating meat from animals with the disease: 0
 
Christian Bale
2006-07-09 4:02:13 PM  
TheCraneMeister

Are you just being technical, or stupid?

No one's gotten "Mad Cow disease" from infected beef, but a few hundred have, mostly in the UK, gotten vCJD, the human form, from eating contaminated beef.
 
Goodfella
2006-07-09 4:03:50 PM  
The CraneMeister:

Number of Mad Cow disease cases caused by beef from cows with the disease: 0

Number of cases that prove it's possible for a human to contract Mad Cow disease in the first place by eating meat from animals with the disease: 0

So what's all the hubub about? Why are we testing any cows at all? Why have major trading partners stopped importing our beef, superstition? Tin foil hats? Does mad cow disease not really exist, it's just s conspiracy concocted by some wacky mad scientists pulling an April fools joke?
 
Sunday
2006-07-09 4:04:06 PM  
All this means to me is Japanese woman are going to be growing huge breasts again now that they have access to hormone fed US beef. Yay US beef.
 
Goodfella
2006-07-09 4:04:36 PM  
[image from gta-mania.com too old to be available]

BF Injection?
 
mcostas
2006-07-09 5:00:55 PM  
Mad Cow is scary. There is absolutely nothing you as a consumer can do to protect yourself from it. Unlike most things, cooking meat has no effect, and there is no way to test for yourself. Additionally, it takes about 10 years from time of infection until people detect that they have even been infected. So lots of people probably have the disease and don't yet know. Then of course, there is no cure and your brain wastes away until you die.

So all you can do is trust the government, which in the US only randomly tests a tiny percentage of animals, and trust an industry driven by profits that fiercely resisted taking protective measures because they cost money. After Katrina and Iraq, we can be certain that trusting the US government is a fool's errand. And Enron made it pretty clear trusting corporate America isn't too wise either.
 
spacewarp
2006-07-09 5:03:59 PM  
"PETA members strip naked somewhere"

This headline is useless withouth pics!
 
have another drink and drive yourself home
2006-07-09 5:22:32 PM  
Nice Boondock Saints reference there Dead in the Shadows
 
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